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Learn Japanese the fun way | Nihongoup (jp)
http://nihongoup.com/
Nihongoup is a Japanese reviewing tool for foreign learners and native speakers alike.
- Improve your kana IME typing speed
- Review JLPT kanji and vocabulary
- Learn Japanese particles in context
All this comes packaged in this Japanese learning game which will keep you motivated during you study of this beautiful, but demanding language
Trial/demo version available.

Japanese : Video Tutorials (jp)
http://www.videojug.com/tag/japanese
Japanese Language : Video Tutorials

Japanese Words (jp)
http://learn-with-youtube.blogspot.com/2008/12/japanese-words.html
Japanese Words
The collection of videos here will provide complete beginners with enough knowledge for having a basic conversation in Japanese

Japanese Numbers (jp)
http://learn-with-youtube.blogspot.com/2008/12/japanese-numbers.html
Learning Japanese Number

Tae Kims Blog (jp)
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/blog/
Tae Kim’s Blog : Japanese, Chinese, and a dash of Korean
She writes instructive articles for the beginner, intermediate and advanced level learners of Japanese
This blog originally used to be at nihongo.3yen.com and I moved the content to my own blog
The original blog was for people learning Japanese but I have a bit more flexibility now and will write my thoughts on learning Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. The focus will still be on useful information for those learning Japanese while posts about Chinese and Korean will be more from a learner’s point of view since that’s what I am. (Not to say that I’m not still learning Japanese.)

Kanji Steps
http://www.kanjistep.com/en/online/hiraganasteps/index.html
On Kanji Step's pages you can find loads of materials to practice your knowledge skills in Hiragana and Katakana.
It is advised that learning Katakana prior to Hiragana may be more useful in some circumstances. Thus, we suggest you start with Katakana first. Also, for the Hiragana Reading Test on this site, you are expected to have a knowledge of Katakana.

Hiragana and Katakana Practice
http://www.gyford.com/japanese/
Hiragana and Katakana Practice
A page for you to test your knowledge of Hiragana and Katakana.

Jishobot (jp)
http://jishobot.com
A simple English / Japanese dictionary.
Enter any kanji, kana, romaji, or English words and look up definitions for over 130,000 words!

Nicovideo
http://www.nicovideo.jp
This website is in Japanese but you can use one of the translation websites to change to English (I like Babelfish myself) but almost impossible to navigate around unless you read Japanese
This is a video hosting site ... just upload your videos 'Youtube-style" ... the magic is that you are able to add chat over the uploaded video.
Imagine working with a group of language students ... then this could be a very powerful tool, asking them to translate in chat over the video.
I'm hoping there will be an English version one day.

Baidu : Japanese Language Search Engine
http://www.baidu.jp/
Baidu : Japanese Language Search Engine

Yahoo Kids in Japanese (jp)
http://kids.yahoo.co.jp/
Yahoo Kids in Japanese

Japanese Podcast Directories (jp)
http://tinyurl.com/yeqzne
Japanese Podcast Directories .. useful for learning the language .. listening skills

Japanesepod101 : Podcasts (jp)
http://www.japanesepod101.com/
Learn Japanese with Daily Podcasts from Tokyo Whether you are Japan-bound or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible.
For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at Japanesepod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Yoroshiku O-negai Shimasu!

Wikijunior Languages : Japanese
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Languages/Japanese
Wikijunior Languages : Japanese
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection | free | online | textbook |
| What writing system(s) does this language use? | How many people speak this language? | Where is this language spoken? | What is the history of this language? | Who are some famous authors or poets in this language? | What are some basic words in this language that I can learn? | What is a simple song/poem/story that I can learn in this language? |

English Japanese Online Dictionary (jp)
http://www.englishjapaneseonlinedictionary.com
English Japanese Online Dictionary
This is a visual, beginners' dictionary written in easy to read Romaji. Also includes Japanese English dictionary.

Online Japanese E-Courses (jp)
http://www.lang-arts.com/japanarts/index.php
Online, self-paced lessons in Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, and Japanese Grammar. With exams and certificates. An resource for the absolute beginner.
This is a commercial website but there are a number of worthwhile lessons that are free.

Google Search Engine : Japanese Front Page (jp)
http://www.google.com/intl/ja/
Google Search Engine : Japanese Front Page

Japanese language websites (jp)
http://tinyurl.com/rogtm
Japanese language websites and links at "I Love Languages"

English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzes (jp)
http://iteslj.org/v/j/
English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzes

LanguagePlus : Japanese (jp)
http://www.japanese.languageplus.com.au
LanguagePlus : Japanese
This site is particularly designed to help students of Japanese to memorize Japanese vocabulary learnt in class and practise their Japanese grammar skills.
It is also designed to be used by Japanese teachers, a tracking system allows Japanese teachers to view time spent by their students, their SCORE and progress.
Interactive Activities

Japan Language Links at DMOZ
http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Foreign_Languages/Japanese/
Japan Language Links at DMOZ | Japanese |

Japanese Sound effects and what they mean (jp)
http://www.oop-ack.com/manga/soundfx.html
Japanese Sound effects and what they mean

Japanese Language (jp)
http://www.japanese-language.org/
For a quick start up please see our Japanese Words section. Just after you can take your first steps into the grammar, but it's just an overview, if you want to take it more seriously, you'll have to study many years.
The Japanese literature is another interesting source of information, as well as Japanese slang, to know a little about how people speak in the streets. And if you're a teacher, please visit our Japanese Teaching resources page, to get in touch with associations and other sites built specially for you. You'll find also links to Japanese language schools abroad
Japanese Dialects | Japanese Dictionaries | Japanese Language Facts | Japanese Forum | Japanese Grammar | History of the Japanese | Japanese language jobs | Language Newsletters | Language Schools | Japanese Literature | Japanese Phrases | Japanese Products | Japanese Sign Language | Japanese Slang | Teaching Japanese | Japanese translation | Japanese Words |

The Ice Mocha Application (jp)
http://kanjicafe.com
The Ice Mocha Application
Allows the student to build vocabulary lists of Japanese words for drilling.
Words can be derived from JLPT lists, most common words not already on the list, dictionary searches, etc.
Application is driven by keyboard commands over the web.

Wikibooks online course on the Japanese language
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese
Wikibooks online course on the Japanese language ... free access
Visitors can modify the content online in real time and also add new material themselves.

List of Japanese Search Engines at Colossus
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Japan.html
List of Japanese Search Engines at Colossus

Learn To Speak Japanese (shareware) (jp)
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000037239
Learn To Speak Japanese (shareware)
Learn To Speak Japanese V2.7(the Roman character version) is specially developed for the people who are learning Japanese. It includes 245 scenes of common conversation and 850 words of basic vocabulary that will be only presented in small screen with pronunciation, therefore, you can remember all while doing other things, the software will make every second of your time useful.
Learn To Speak Japanese mainly comes with conversations learning tool, vocabularies learning tool, and Reader Angel.
http://www.learn-to-speaker.com/

Japanese Word Processor (jp)
http://www.njstar.com/njstar/japanese/
Japanese Word Processor .. free demo
Input Methods: KanaKanji, Romaji, Four-Corners, Strokes, Nelson index, Unicode, radical lookup and English-to-Japanese methods.
Japanese-English Dictionary: Japanese to English and English to Japanese two-way fast lookup, with 100,000 entries in the dictionary.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia in Japanese (jp)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia Encyclopedia in Japanese
Wikipedia is the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Elementary Japanese Language Course
http://i33www.ira.uka.de/~bgarz/nihongoshoho
A complete online elementary Japanese language course with audio mp3 files, grammar, vocabulary trainer, kanji indexes, practice worksheets, realtime dictionary, text processing tool. No Japanese font required!

Dictation Quizzes for Japanese Speech (jp)
http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/
Dictation Quizzes for Japanese Speech
The contents are the quizzes using Java applets for learners of Japanese to train themselves for hearing spoken sentences, words, syllables, special morae and accent. Let's try to examine your hearing level for Japanese speech uttered by a professional announcer.

Understanding Written Japanese (jp)
http://members.aol.com/joyo96/index96.html
Understanding Written Japanese

CMJ Japanese Grammar Online (jp)
http://mercury.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/webcmj/
CMJ Japanese Grammar Online
This CAI program is designed to help you practice and review basic Japanese grammar. It covers many of the grammar points taught in elementary Japanese language courses.
You can answer in either HIRAGANA or a mixture of HIRAGANA and KANJI (except when KATAKANA required).

Japanese language learning tools on Web (jp)
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/language.html
Japanese language learning tools on Web
Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionaries | Kanji, Kana help | On-line Japanese tutoring | Survival Japanese | Let's chat | Reference materials on-line | "Short cut" (translation) sites | Teach your children some Japanese and about Asia! | Japanese Language Proficiency Test info | Japanese class offered online, class homepage |

Nihongo Nirvana (jp)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nihongonirvana/
Nihongo Nirvana - Nihongo Nirvana is a set of tools for the assisted study of the Japanese Language on both Desktop computers and PDAs. This project aims at the creation of a complete tool suite for the study of kanjis (japanese character), vocabulary and grammar.
Free | software | opensource | open source |

Japanese/English/Japanese Dictionary
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?8000000036149
Japanese/English/Japanese Dictionary for PDA Palm OS 3.5 or higher
The compact and handy dictionary features about 30,000 entries in each direction. Additional entries can be easily added when necessary. The Pro version of BDicty - dictionary reader is included!
You will not need Japanese localization kit (or Japanese OS) as Japanese words are spelled with Latin letters. In addition, a bonus English Gold Dictionary is included in the bundle (35,000 entries in 2MB).

The Kanji Project
http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kanji-project/index.html
The Kanji Project
This site is a curriculum-independent repository of Kanji study materials, allowing teachers to build their own Web documents (on their own, or using templates provided here) and linking in, as desired, to the multi-media materials.
The on-line collection of data consists of digital movies showing each character being painted with a brush; scanned still images of each character painted by hand; stroke count, on- and kun-yomi for each character; and sample compound words with accompanying sounds for each compound word.

Using the Japanese Language on Your Computer
http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/japanese.html
Using the Japanese Language on Your Computer

Japlish and ESL
http://www.eslteachersboard.com/Japlish.htm
Japlish and ESL - Plus International Japanese Words

Survival Japanese for ESL Teachers
http://www.eslteachersboard.com/ClassroomCommandsJapanese.htm
Survival Japanese for ESL Teachers

Test Your Japanese (jp)
http://eleaston.com/jp-qz.html
Test Your Japanese Online

Super Links to Japanese Resources
http://www.uni.edu/becker/japanese2.html
Super Links to Japanese Resources .. Here you will find lots of sites that can be helpful for you for learning more about Japan and the Japanese language and culture.
Wanna Learn Japanese? | BBN Japanese Live Stream / Hear Japanese spoken here | Japanese language learning tools on Web | Learn Japanese - Free! |

Charles Kelly's Japanese Study Website (jp)
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/
Charles Kelly's Japanese Study Website - Quizzes and Flashcards for Japanese Language Learning.
jp | japan | japanese | language |

MITs OpenCourseWare - Japanese (jp)
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/index.htm
Welcome to MIT's OpenCourseWare - Foreign Languages and Literatures - Japanese
A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
MIT OCW: Is a publication of MIT course materials | Does not require any registration | Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity |
MIT provides a unique perspective on foreign languages because of the opportunities available to integrate the study of natural languages with the latest technological advances in multimedia and interactive learning. FL&L-affiliated faculty are exploring and implementing methods in which multimedia technology can be used to make learning a foreign language a more authentic experience.

Learn Japanese in 10 minutes (jp)
http://www.seas.ac.uk/Undergraduate/Flash.shtml
Learn Japanese in 10 minutes
Why not take the SEAS East Asia Challenge and find out what it's like to speak and write Chinese, Japanese and Korean? Alternatively, why not have a go at our quiz to find out how much you already know about East Asia?

Try to Learn the Kyoto Dialect, Kyo Kotoba (jp)
http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/kp/ojikoji/kotoba/kotoba_e.html
Try to Learn the Kyoto Dialect, Kyo Kotoba
The Kyoto dialect, Kyo Kotoba, which has a long history and developed in Kyoto's own refined culture, has a unique sound apart from standard Japanese. Moreover, the implication of a word changes according to place, time, relationship between people and subtle pronunciation.
language | course | jp | Japan | Japanese |

The Regional Dialect in Nosaka Town (jp)
http://www.kashiwakuma.com/nosaka/dialect-e.htm
The Regional Dialect in Nosaka Town - A dialect in the east coast of Tokyo
Nosaka town is located in the east coast of Tokyo. It's about 100km from Tokyo and is in Sosa-county, Chiba Prefecture. Though there are some dialects around our town, I will focus on the dialect in Nosaka town in this page.
language | course | jp | Japan | Japanese |

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